The Work Ethic of a Multiple Olympic Champion

I was 32 after Beijing, 36 in London. No other athlete had won a gold medal in a sprint event after the age of 30 and I was 36 going into London. It took me a long time to get over that. You can't magic a performance out of nowhere. The key is it's just about having the tools to do what you know you can do, but do it under the most extreme pressure of situations. Nothing annoys me more than athletes talking about themselves in pretentious arrogance. Michael Phelps started referring to himself as 'the third person' when interviewed by Chris Beijengeng on BBC Radio 5 Live last week. He'd heard he'd been in a press conference